FINALLY. THANK GOD.

Title: Mildred: A College AU
Authors: causeways and walkawayslowly
Artist: sillyshy, her art post is here. Tell her she is awesome!
Word Count: 62,131
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: NC-17
Official Summary: It is a truth universally acknowledged that a Jared in possession of his heterosexuality will immediately switch teams upon enrollment in college and first contact with Jensen Ackles.
Original Summary: Jared goes to college and is gay for Jensen Ackles. It's a real shocker, sports fans.
Real Summary: No really, that’s all that happens. For 60,000 words.
Disclaimer: Jared, Jensen, and all of the other real live people we mention belong to themselves. Sadly. The OCs are ours, all ours.
Authors' Notes:

Kelly thanks: walkawayslowly, for suggesting that we cowrite in the first place, and for waiting patiently for me to move past the laughing-in-her-face stage and into the "omg fine" stage; for not murdering me during the many, many periods of story-related emo; and for still being my very favorite person on the entire internet (and beyond!) at the end of it all. I can't think of anyone with whom I would rather have a child that is also a piece of fanfiction. You say that's slightly creepy? I say that's how we roll.
girlmostlikely, for a very fantastic beta, and for being one of my very first fandom friends, back when I was new and writing about Wincestuous adventures in prison. Those were good times.
nemoinis, for being so excellent as to offer to beta even when she did not know half of the authors, and for doing a fantastic job while she was at it.

Merrin thanks: causeways. I understand the key smash when I first asked her to cowrite now, and all the laughter. See, she'd done this before, and I really hadn't. If you are not familiar with the process, it is one arduous task. Similar to giving birth, I would imagine, or climbing a mountain, even though I have only done the latter and not the former. I have a new measure for a friend now, and it’s someone who will cowrite 60k of coming-of-age (and out-of-the-closet) rps with you and still be your friend at the end of it.
girlmostlikely, for agreeing to beta even though she knew how long it was going to be, and how much time we weren’t going to be able to give her. thanks also for pointing out our ACTUAL posting date as opposed to the posting date we THOUGHT we had. Love you, babe, you are the BEST.
nemoinis, for ALWAYS betaing everything, even my crappy popslash. and for being one of MY first fandom friends, back when I thought "slash" fic meant "stabbing people with pointy knives."

Kelly and Merrin both thank: sillyshy, for picking our lame summary out of a whole list of summaries, and being an INCREDIBLY awesome artist; and the spn_j2_bigbang mods, for running this wild rumpus again.

MILDRED: A COLLEGE AU

This took WAY longer that I thought it would when I started writing it. That's because it's been rewritten like . . . four times. Thrilling, I know. Anyway, this is pretty different than the story I thought I was going to write when I started it, but it still ends up in the same place. So, cool.

Title: Jagged and Endlessly New
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairings: JC Chasez/Chace Crawford, Chace Crawford/Ed Westwick
Word Count: 4,054
Disclaimer: None of these men have ever had any sort of homosexual relations with each other whatsoever.
Summary: "I think I'm moving out of my apartment," Ed says one afternoon on set. They're huddling in Chace's trailer between takes.
Author's Notes: This is the sequel to Some Surreal Country, but it should stand alone pretty well. walkawayslowly would have betaed this if she'd been around.

( Jagged and Endlessly New )

Also, I can move on now. THANK GOD.

Hahaha, yes. The first fic I am posting since October REALLY IS JC Chasez/Chace Crawford. EPIC SIGH.

Let me start by saying that I owe walkawayslowly my soul. She's had to hear about this story for way too freaking long, and she could not possibly care less about this pairing, and yet she has sat through every bit of my blabbing about it and has not even said "stfu before I punch you in the face" so much as once. This is because she is a saint.

Merrin not only sat through all of my blathering, but she ALSO looked at this when I said, "I think this is two stories. Do you think this is two stories?" and then after confirming that yes, it was two stories (Story #2, in which Chace Crawford is gay with Ed Westwick, is on its way!), she even freaking betaed. Because she loves me. Anyway! Story!

Title: Some Surreal Country
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: JC Chasez/Chace Crawford
Word Count: 3,125
Disclaimer: Despite what every magazine and gossip blog ever has said, JC and Chace are not gay with each other. No, really, they're not.
Summary: JC Chasez and Chace Crawford were totally doing it.
Author's Notes: In case it was not clear from the above, I owe walkawayslowly BIG TIME. We're talking, like, a pony here.

( Some Surreal Country )

Story #2 is coming soon! Far sooner than walkawayslowly would like.

ETA: Story #2, right here. Jagged and Endlessly New

In 2008 I:

- graduated from college
- got a full-time job
- decided I actually like my job
- spent the entire month of November at my job, frequently to the exclusion of sleeping
- drove cross-country for the second time
- wrote far less than in 2007
- had far more ideas for stories, and better ones
- lost some very close friends
- made some better friends
- met up with some fandom friends (multiple times!)
- moved to New York
- worked in three states and lived in a fourth
- yelled from the roof of my apartment building on Election Day
- yelled from the streets of Lower Manhattan on Election Night
- kissed someone in an elevator
- bought the first decent bed I have ever owned
- fell a little out of love with SPN
- fell a lot in love with Entourage
- rediscovered board games
- discovered that I have an inner '50s hostess
- frequently decided that walking a mile and a half cross-town in the cold was a better choice than riding the train one more stop. Note to self: wrong.

2008, you were weird. Mostly good weird, but definitely weird. Overall I'm happier than I was this time last year, though, so 2008 can count for a win.

Oh! Haha! In 2008, also, I watched Twilight.

Unpopular fandom opinion time! I think Twilight kicks The Christmas Cottage's ass to hell and back. Both of these movies are pretty freaking atrocious! But Twilight is absolutely the sort of atrocious that is so bad it is also AWESOME, and it sinks its teeth into you and holds on for dear life and you LOVE IT. (YES YES. I KNOW ABOUT THE PUN.)

There are some pieces of fanfic that I have very similar relationships to. I shall call this multifandom recs list:

( Those stories you should really stop reading because the rational part of your mind is screaming for mercy and yet you cannot stop, ever, even if there were a pack of rabid dogs at your heels. Or beautiful, sparkly vampires. )

Regardless, the point of this is, Twilight! Really bad, but deeefinitely the kind of really bad that comes right back around to sort of totally amazing. I hear the books are extra awful, and Stephenie Meyer makes the universe cry, but I'm going to go read them now anyway. YUP.

I hear you all going, "causeways still writes fic? Whaaaat?" Trust me, I'm as surprised as you are.

Title: Accidents Happen
Author: causeways
Rating: PG-13
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Word Count: 3,100
Disclaimer: Jared and Jensen belong to themselves.
Summary: Jared wakes up one morning, rolls over, and kisses Jensen. And then freaks out about it.
Author's Notes: A few days ago I was talking to balefully, and I said I wanted to write a fic about guys getting together after being in a club. And Lucy said, "Write it! Make it J2!" And I said, "No way, dude, they LIVE TOGETHER. If they were going to get together, it wouldn't be because of a CLUB." And then this fic happened. So this is for balefully. Also, big thanks to walkawayslowly, not just for being awesome, but also for betaing and killing all those colons.

( Accidents Happen )

Title: Workin' Hard for the Money
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Word Count: 1,807
Disclaimer: Jared and Jensen belong to themselves and are not actually fucking in real life, nor is either of them a hooker.
Summary: After Jared gives Jensen the most fantastic blowjob of his life, Jensen runs into him again, and they go back to Jensen's house and fuck.
Author's Notes: This is the sequel to balefully's J2 hooker fic Heart of Gold, which she wrote for me and which you'll want to read first. I seem to have agreed with everyone who thought it needed a sequel, because I went and wrote one. Thanks to walkawayslowly for all kinds of good advice, as always, and to vinylroad for the title.

( Workin' Hard for the Money )

The authors just got revealed over at the spn_gleeweek [guess the author competition], so I get to claim my story!

Title: In the Telling
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Sam/Dean
Word Count: 1,391
Disclaimer: Belongs to Kripke, not to me!
Summary: After Sam gets him out of the deal, Dean fucks a lot of girls.
Author's Notes: Thanks to memphis86 for looking this over!

( In the Telling )

I sort of want to insert a long paragraph of blah about warnings and how I hate them (this is related because in spite of the fact that Dean sleeps with like a dozen girls in my spn_gleeweek fic I would never, ever warn for het in it), but I think I'll save that for another day.

Right now, I want to point you over to girlmostlikely's [accidental schmoop meme] where I got coerced into writing ~400 words of Sam/Dean, gruffness, the giver being more surprised than the receiver. Coerced, yup. Writing that was REALLY PAINFUL, let me just tell you. *g*

And speaking of the accidental schmoop meme and of the GtA competition, have some shortfic recs!

Jared/Jensen, off-season, missing each other by dontyouwaitup
PG | 565 words | from the accidental schmoop meme
I love the matter-of-fact-ness and also their banter SO MUCH.

Sam/Dean, taking a bath together by memphis86
R-ish | 556 words | from the accidental schmoop meme
My comment on this was something along the lines of, "I just made a happy noise so high-pitched that ONLY THE DOGS HEARD IT." First time Sam/Dean in a BATHTUB.

The lady of the right hand by fleshflutter
pre-series Dean-centric gen | PG-13 | 1,789 words | from spn_gleeweek
Dean's last night in New Orleans with that voodoo gig.
This is one of those fics that makes me wonder why I don't read more gen than I do. Or maybe it's just that fleshflutter's really awesome. Dean and a TOTALLY FANTASTIC original character.

Joie de Vivre by memphis86
Sam/Dean | PG-13 | 1,906 words | from spn_gleeweek
This is just a really cool short fic that TOTALLY MESSES WITH YOUR MIND. I'm a big fan of that. Sam in the South of France!

The Eyes Have It by __tiana__
Jared/Jensen | PG-13 | 1,200ish words
This isn't actually from either the accidental schmoop meme OR from the GtA entries, but it's short and also all about Jared realizing that there are 28374 pictures of Jensen staring at him like he is COMPLETELY IN LOVE WITH HIM, so I really don't see how this could not get included.

*

I haven't actually read all of the spn_gleeweek fics yet, so there may be a part two to this after I get my act together. And now back to doing . . . whatever it is you do at your internship after you are already finished researching replacement refrigerator parts. Writing fic?? We shall see.

For header information, please see part one.

( Farther Away from Where We Are (2/2) )

Title: Farther Away from Where We Are
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Word Count: 17,842
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles and all other people mentioned herein belong to themselves.
Summary: In which Jensen goes to Texas and gets drunk all the time, and wishes he were Prometheus, because then his poor dead liver would grow back every night. Also, eventually there is J2.
Author's Notes: This was written for Sweet Charity for a really awesome person who asked to remain anonymous. walkawayslowly went above and beyond with the beta work. This fic wouldn't be anywhere near what it is without her help. memphis86 also looked it over and fixed my huevos rancheros. Tragically not real ones, because those would be delicious right now.
Notes You Should Really Read: This is even more fictitious than the usual J2 fiction in that, for the purposes of this fic, Jared never proposed to Sandy. Also, randomly, there's a spoiler for 3x12 'Jus in Bello'.

( Farther Away from Where We Are (1/2) )

Happy Saturday! Have a short list of things that are happy-making! This list is totally random, so first I will cunningly distract you with a rec!

• A Little Hopeful, a Little Lucky by luzdeestrellas
  Jared/Jensen | PG-13 | 1,460 words
  Jensen has no intention of going to the party, is the thing.
  Short and lovely first-time J2! This is one of those fics that is exactly what I hadn't realized I was wanting until I read it.


• CHOLULAAAAA.
  
  
  Fried eggs over easy with Cholula hot sauce made my late-night thesis writing date at Denny's soooo much better in the middle of last week.


• JIM FREAKING BEAVER.


• unamaga's awesome post about the Sandlot, a.k.a. MY ONE TRUE CHILDHOOD MOVIE LOVE.


• The new hoodie I went and bought myself after I finished taking the big fat Goethe Prüfung (C1) this morning:
  
  


• The fact that I am DONE DONE DONE with my Sweet Charity J2 (17,455 words before the beta, oh dear God), so as soon as walkawayslowly stops drunk-dialing me and speaking in Whale, I should have that up! EEEEEE. I CAN WORK ON MY BIG BANG NOW. Or my senior thesis, either one . . .

This is entirely memphis86's fault. I was talking about how I've done that thing where I'm overwhelming myself with writing long fic again, and she said, "Write a drabble! I'll prompt you!" So uh, in that universe where a drabble is 443 words long, this is a drabble!

( And the Birds Too )

Um. I might have been extremely bored at my internship earlier. That is my excuse for all of this. But anyway, shannon_doll is just getting into SPN, and I told her I'd give her some recs, SO:

( A big ol' list of recs. Nine SPN and six CW RPS. SPN recs are either AUs or do not contain spoilers past the end of S1 -- or at least, they shouldn't, if I did my job right! )

This was meant to be an entry about how freaking terrified I am of second semester of senior year, my thesis and its 2,500 pages of primary source material, etc., etc., but no one really wants to hear me whine, and anyway I would much rather talk about the fact that apparently I can MAKE THINGS HAPPEN WITH MY BRAIN.

Yesterday evening I was talking to belyste, and bemoaning the fact that I had never, ever seen 69ing porn in SPN or CW RPS fic. She said she'd seen it maybe once, but it was still incredibly rare.

WELL. Since then, people have posted not one but TWO awesome fics that involve 69ing!

So Close to My Heart by audrarose
Jared/Jensen | NC-17 | 15,900 words
Dr. Jared and single-dad Jensen in Seattle, with love and complications.

Junk in the Trunk by lazy_daze
Sam/Dean | NC-17 | 1,500 words
Sam and Dean got locked in a trunk. There is porn.

AMAZING. walkawayslowly then went, "Ooh, say, 'I wish Sheppard and McKay would make out on the next episode of SGA' out loud! MAYBE IT WILL HAPPEN TOO." I hope this also works for my senior thesis! "My senior thesis will appear on my desk RIGHT NOW!"

Tragically, I suspect it only works for porn, but here's hoping I'm wrong.

I'm in a creative writing class this semester where the professor specifically said, "No genre fiction!" on the first day. I have a story (~10 double-spaced pages) due a week from Wednesday, and I so very badly want to turn in a story about a pair of cowboys falling in love in space, just to be ornery. It could be a VERY LITERARY story about cowboys falling in love in space! She is cramping my literary fiction genius.

One of these days memphis86 and I will totally get around to answering comments. Sigh. We are just apparently both lazy like really lazy things.

Anyway, things I'm intensely excited about:

• abouttwoboys posting starts in ten days! A week from Friday!
• Steve Carlson with notthequiettype and reallythateasy on Thursday!
• Speaking of Thursday! Those two boys on that TV show with the car? Yeah, I heard they get cursed into Sammypus and Deanigator, and they have EPIC SEA BATTLES. Dean makes a lot of seamen jokes, and Sam cries enormous tears of angst because he HATES having tentacles. And then they cling to each other lovingly and all is well with the world. That's totally what happens, you guys, I SWEAR.

For header, notes, etc. please see part one.

( Wasted on the Young (2/2) )

Title: Wasted on the Young
Authors: causeways & memphis86
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Rating: NC-17 (alternately, G for Gratuitous Assflap)
Word Count: 15,000
Warnings: Crack. Age-regression. Ducky ex machina.
Thanks: walkawayslowly for the beta!
Summary: Once upon a time when Jared was five and dinosaurs roamed the earth, rubber duckies appeared out of thin air and submarines surfaced in Jensen's bathtub. Also, two very pretty boys got stuck in very sexy situations.

( Wasted on the Young (1/2) )

Uh, I have a new default icon! Dean Winchester looking down was my icon since I first got into SPN (so uh, since March, omg):



But much as I love him, it was sort of time for a new one. So, pretty, colorful unamaga icon!



No one will recognize me on the internet EVER NOW, will they, Ash? Ahaha.

Anyway, I am currently working on four different things in three different fandoms. Er, two fandoms and an original TV show, I guess I should say. (The last of which is a BOARDING SCHOOL STORY, and I am in love with every single character on it, and yes, it might never see the light of day, but WHATEVER, IT ROCKS, THE END.) For ages I only ever worked on one story at once, and now I am more-or-less actively working on FOUR. Two J2, one McShep (which walkawayslowly and I keep calling McSheep, because we are ridiculous, and it cracks us up) and the TV show, not even counting the at least . . . four? five? other stories that are in progress or in some state of revision, and wow, I didn't it was possible to love this many stories and this many characters THIS MUCH all at once. Does anybody else feel that way? Like, just sort of FULL OF LOVE for a whole big bunch of characters or different permutations of characters, and incapable of choosing which ones you love the most at any given time because they are all that awesome? Yeah.

I think I had something more to say, but instead I think I am going to go hang out with McKay and Sheppard. Or maybe the Never Been Kissed Js. Or maybe the TOTALLY AWESOME Js from memphis86's and my crackfic. I can't decide! But whichever ones I pick, I know it'll be so much fun, and that is a pretty amazing thing.

I did it! I signed up for spn_j2_bigbang along with everyone and their mother. I've only looked at the first page or so of comments, but it looks like a lot of people are writing J2 this year. I sort of want to go back and sign up for SPN instead, just to be difficult, but I'm not doing it, because I already know exactly what I'm writing: lingering in the golden gleam sequel fic!

Uh, sorry if that kind of kills the point of the anonymous title-and-summary-posting in May? I'm the kid writing the "Jensen is gay and on Broadway and Jared is a big-shot actor who just got back from spending a month or so in an alternate universe where he was married to Jensen and had kids and now they are actually getting together in the real world" not!AU. Surprise!

I'm not going to be creating a Big Bang filter or anything like that, because come on now, fics that are upwards of 20K and I? We are tight. So I'm just kind of . . . not going to be talking about my Big Bang ahead of time, other than how I just told you what it is. If you're super curious about how it's going or something, you're welcome to ping me.

Oh! Speaking of fic, I posted some last night!

The World Gone Still
Sam/Dean | NC-17 | 4,083 words | written for spn_apocasmut
Dean could have stopped this thing if he'd been a little faster, a little less weak—but on the last day of Dean's year, when Sam shakes him awake at 3:30 in the morning and says he's figured it out, Dean finds himself incapable of forming the word 'no'.

It's a kind of an oddball fic for me, I'll be the first to say. I'm usually the one who needs to spell out EVERYTHING EVER, and I kind of tried to . . . not do that here. Anyway, I hadn't written Sam and Dean in ages! It was sort of fun to go back to them.

And now, back to cowriting Never Been Kissed J2 AUs with setissma and writing marry-or-die McShep for Ash and Crystal AND MERRIN, those pushy bitches. ♥

(Ahaha, that subject header is SUCH A LIE. I'm just quoting Gabe Saporta!)

Anyway! The saga of the wisdom teeth hasn't really been that much of a saga at all. Vicodin hasn't even been necessary, which is kind of sad, because how often do you legitimately get to be in possession of Vicodin? I'm super psyched, though: I'm allowed to eat solid foods again as of tomorrow! \o/ This means that the travesty that was tonight's dinner -- butternut squash, Kraft Mac & Cheese and apple juice (ALL OF WHICH WERE ORANGE) -- will hopefully never be repeated again. At least not until I am like, eighty, at which point I will probably be so senile that it will be helpful to have color-coded dinners: "It's Blue Foods night, so it must be Sunday!" I think my family is taking me to Outback tomorrow night to celebrate my return to chewing. I am going to order a BIG HONKING STEAK and it is going to be AWESOME.

Speaking of things that are awesome: abouttwoboys! setissma's and my wee little community is out in the world! Probably most of you have already heard about it already, since we both pimped it out yesterday, but just in case you missed it: SPN and CW RPS rewrites of romantic comedies! How can this be anything less than awesome? I suspect that it's probably going to be fairly J2-heavy, but SPN is totally encouraged too (as is het, if you want, but not gen, 'cause that kind of defeats the purpose of, y'know, romantic comedies), so wherever you fall on the spectrum, come write for us! Or at least come read all the awesome fic in a little more than a month. :D

So, randomly, I still owe at least seven of you holiday cards. :\ You're still going to get them! I swear! Just, uh. In the middle of January! But if I promised you a holiday card, I just wanted to let you know that I still haven't forgotten and I love you all, and uh, if you weren't originally on my list and want a January card with a ficlet in it? I will write one to you, too! Just email me your address, okay? [katjadee at gmail . com]

And omg, wendy, I have owed you porn in the mail since like. NOVEMBER. :( I'm on it, I promise!

Anyway! If I am not done with my spn_apocasmut by tomorrow at the latest, I might actually cry. I know exactly where I am going with this fic, even though where I am going is bizarre as hell; it's just taking me forever. It occurred to me that the last time I wrote straight-up non-genderswapped Sam/Dean? Was in motherfucking AUGUST. How weird is that, you guys? I've been in quasi-het-land and J2-land for that long. Clearly this needs fixin'.

If any of you guys have setissma on your flists, you might have seen where she posted about a potential romantic comedies community a couple of weeks ago. Y'know, that whole J2 / SPN movies rewrite thing that we all love so much, but just for romantic comedies. So like, if reel_spn and spn_harlequin had an assbaby joined forces!

WELL. It now exists!

abouttwoboys! abouttwoboys! abouttwoboys!

The intro post is here and the sign ups post is here. Sign ups will be running from right this very second through January 11th, so you've got a little bit of time, but for now we're only allowing two people per movie, so if you already know you want to rewrite Sleepless in Seattle, you might want to go ahead and sign up now.

You're also more than welcome to just go over there and suggest more movies we haven't thought of yet (because we're good but we're not perfect!), but we'd totally love it if you'd write for us! 1,000-word minimum, you guys. That's like, nothing. Fics will be due during the week of February 8-14, so hopefully we'll all have loads of romantic comedy-inspired J2 and SPN for Valentine's Day. Yaaay!

Anyway, go! Sign up! Tell everyone you know! *bounces*

Title: Lingering in the Golden Gleam
Author: causeways
Rating: NC-17
Pairing: Jared/Jensen
Word Count: 21,000
Disclaimer: This is a work of fiction. Jared Padalecki, Jensen Ackles and all other people mentioned herein belong to themselves. The Family Man and its plot belong to someone else who is still not me.
Summary: On New Year's Eve ten years after the end of Supernatural, Jared goes to sleep in Los Angeles and wakes up in Vancouver, in bed with Jensen Ackles. And they've got kids.
Author's Notes: This fic is based on the movie The Family Man, although it deviates pretty far from the original plot in places and contains no Nicholas Cage whatsoever. You needn't have seen the movie to understand the fic. I should point out that while a large part of this fic takes place within an AU, the fic itself is not actually an AU -- rather, it's future fic. Hopefully that'll make sense when you read it. The title comes from the end of Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, compliments of memphis86. Additional notes and acknowledgments can be found here.
Podfic: here, by luvplatinumbaby.
Russian Translation: here, by indian1978.

part one | part two | part three | notes & acknowledgments